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bnsf, the engine that connects us. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the tea party had a new champion today and texas republicans had their nominee for the u.s. senate. the results in tuesday's runoff sent a shock wave through republican ranks nationwide. >> when we started, they said this was impossible. we were at 2% in the polls. >> woodruff: but last night, former texas solicitor general ted cruz captured the republican nomination for a u.s. senate seat. >> and they said i couldn't do it. and you know what? they were right. i couldn't do it, but you could. ( cheers ) >> woodruff: cruz trounced texas' lieutenant governor of nine years, david dewhurst, by 13 points. he did it with the backing of such tea party favorites as sarah palin and rick santorum, and with a fiery brand of conservative populism. >> tonight is a
bnsf, the engine that connects us. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the tea party had a new champion today and texas republicans had their nominee for the u.s. senate. the results in tuesday's runoff sent a shock wave through republican ranks nationwide. >> when we started, they...
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joing us now to lp us understand what's ne is todd zwillich of "the takeaway" from public radio international and wnyc. welcome back. you, judy. >> so this is a bulletin. the two parties may be reaching an agreement on something. >> on two things,fact that are both expiring, and transportation bill, a bona fide bs bil it's ama what c can aclish wn things are expiring with & when it's time fair vacation. >> woodruff: democrats have been saying this is a jobs bill. have repuicans finally agreedwir rationale? >> think the republica agreed it was a jobsll everything gets stamped a jobs bill in this economy in congress. we have a tax cut, that's a jobs bill. her bive that's a jobs bill. the highway , the transportationill really is a it's a bona fide jobs bill. money goes directly to s they spend it on federal highway pr worke the constructindustry is it really hurting. face jobs bill.whats really beee about the bill, the bona fide jobs bill roughout the recent historof congress always had bipartisan buy-in. every district has a stake. evermbas stake. the unions like it, the chamber of commerce li
joing us now to lp us understand what's ne is todd zwillich of "the takeaway" from public radio international and wnyc. welcome back. you, judy. >> so this is a bulletin. the two parties may be reaching an agreement on something. >> on two things,fact that are both expiring, and transportation bill, a bona fide bs bil it's ama what c can aclish wn things are expiring with & when it's time fair vacation. >> woodruff: democrats have been saying this is a jobs bill....
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craig, thank you for being with us. military officials as we heard are now saying they have probable cause to hold the suspect. abc news was reporting late today of that he had confessed. why aren't they making his that i mean public yet? >> i think they're trying to get to the actual bottom of why he did this. there's not much question, judy, of who did this. as you reported, this soldier walked off the base, massacred these villagers, walked back on the base, turned himself in. panetta said yesterday that he essentially confessed. he said he did it. i think they're trying to figure t why he did it. they don't knowf it was some sort of mental scars from his previous deployment. military officials said they were looking into whether alcohol found on this small military base may have played a role. in short, they don't know what led this guy to snap and walk off the base in the middle of the night and gun down and apparently burn 16 afghans, including... most of them women and children. >> woodruff: it's reported he's a
craig, thank you for being with us. military officials as we heard are now saying they have probable cause to hold the suspect. abc news was reporting late today of that he had confessed. why aren't they making his that i mean public yet? >> i think they're trying to get to the actual bottom of why he did this. there's not much question, judy, of who did this. as you reported, this soldier walked off the base, massacred these villagers, walked back on the base, turned himself in. panetta...
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it was just really intense and then we had cops yelling at us to get out get out. they're running around the neighborhood. it was insane. >> sreenivasan: the blaze still burned out of control today, and fire officials warned it was too dangerous for investigators to get in, just yet. >> i'm a veteran of the denver fire department for 20 years and to me it was like a movie scene. the whole side of the mountain is on fire. that's the only way i can describe it to you. >> sreenivasan: but fire managers were more optimistic about making progress aided by slightly better weather. >> we've been standing out here in the wind and it's been hammering us. just standing here at this news briefing it's been doing also, up in the forest. but today we're not going to have that. the weather looks like it' s cooperating with us and we >> sreenivasan: for now, many people are living in shelters-- at school gyms, hotel banquet rooms or tents in open fields. all told, more than 32,000 people have been forced to flee. >> we barely got anything. we just got a few backpacks with some cl
it was just really intense and then we had cops yelling at us to get out get out. they're running around the neighborhood. it was insane. >> sreenivasan: the blaze still burned out of control today, and fire officials warned it was too dangerous for investigators to get in, just yet. >> i'm a veteran of the denver fire department for 20 years and to me it was like a movie scene. the whole side of the mountain is on fire. that's the only way i can describe it to you. >>...
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apple has changed how we see movies, how we use our i-phones and use computers. they have the creativity and the capital to make this better. they can make their products without horrible human sufferings. >> brown: apple says the findings and recommendations from the investigation will be posted for the public to see in early march. peter, first tell us a bit more about these factories. these are huge places, right? what's their exact relationship to apple? >> these are some of the largest industrial complexes in the world. there's one plant with with over 200,000 people. it's really a small city. has its own soccer stadium, police force, chicken farms. it's goes on and on. it also has dorms where, you know, a dozen people or more, sometimes stay. it's a company that foxconn employs 1.2 million people. it's very interesting. i mean there is a very differentet of things going on in china. there's hundreds of thousands of people, young people, beginning of their lives maybe before they get married tend to come into the cities and get work at plants like these. the
apple has changed how we see movies, how we use our i-phones and use computers. they have the creativity and the capital to make this better. they can make their products without horrible human sufferings. >> brown: apple says the findings and recommendations from the investigation will be posted for the public to see in early march. peter, first tell us a bit more about these factories. these are huge places, right? what's their exact relationship to apple? >> these are some of the...
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assange's presence on your premises, this route is open to us. standoff. this evening, in the face of ecuadorian indignation, the foreign secretary stuck to his guns. >> there are no time limits that is a problem more for the embassy and for mr. assange than for this country except for the fact that we are going to fulfil our obligations under the extradition act to sweden. >> reporter: so where on earth does this go now? well, absolutely nowhere, for julian assange. he's stuck. >> woodruff: curious about other famous asylum-seekers? you can watch a slideshow -- that includes roman polanski, sitting bull and others -- on our website. >> brown: now, agriculture and climate change in michigan. it's been a summer of drought impacting corn and other crops around the nation. but northwestern michigan has faced a different problem that's placed its signature cherry crop in grave danger. our report is part of our series on "coping with climate change". and again we turn to hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: how far can you spit a cherry pit? at the national cherry
assange's presence on your premises, this route is open to us. standoff. this evening, in the face of ecuadorian indignation, the foreign secretary stuck to his guns. >> there are no time limits that is a problem more for the embassy and for mr. assange than for this country except for the fact that we are going to fulfil our obligations under the extradition act to sweden. >> reporter: so where on earth does this go now? well, absolutely nowhere, for julian assange. he's stuck....
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as we age, our immune systems age with us so it puts us at greater risk. other things we've seen are high blood pressure, being a risk factor as well as immunosuppression and conditions such as diabetes. >> brown: so in dallas as they're telling us they're about to start this aerial spraying. are there risks involved? there's been some nervousness there, i gather. >> and i can understand that. when i was with the c.d.c. i was part of the original outbreak in 1999 in new york city and it was the exact same thing where people not used to having aerial spraying or insecticiding. it's nerve-wracking, i can understand that. here in houston we are always spraying. as soon as there's an area that comes up positive for west nile virus then they are immediately throughout with the trucks spraying those areas and i think that's what attributes to the fact we have so few cases here in the houston area even though we have so many mosquitos positive. so from a public health perspective the spraying is going to be effective at helping to knock down those mosquitos popul
as we age, our immune systems age with us so it puts us at greater risk. other things we've seen are high blood pressure, being a risk factor as well as immunosuppression and conditions such as diabetes. >> brown: so in dallas as they're telling us they're about to start this aerial spraying. are there risks involved? there's been some nervousness there, i gather. >> and i can understand that. when i was with the c.d.c. i was part of the original outbreak in 1999 in new york city...
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tell us more about the targets here. they were clearly aiming at shiite neighborhoods and institutions? >> they were for the most part, jeff. mostly shi'a neighborhoods. in fact, even some in... near a shi'a shrine. but they were also aimed at security forces. some of them were gunmen opening fire on police here in baghdad and mystifyingly one of the targets appeared to be an elementary school. this was in the town of hillah... near the town of hillah south of baghdad where a car bomb exploded just outside the gates of a primary school injuring dozens of children. so a wide range of targets but all of them with a common denominator of seemingly seeking to destabilize security services here and instill fear-- which they did. >> brown: well, what is known about the insurgents who might have carried this out? who are they and tell us more about their possible aims? >> everyone's blaming it on al qaeda. "everyone" meaning from the interior ministry which said al qaeda was clearly to blame to the foreign minister who he spoke
tell us more about the targets here. they were clearly aiming at shiite neighborhoods and institutions? >> they were for the most part, jeff. mostly shi'a neighborhoods. in fact, even some in... near a shi'a shrine. but they were also aimed at security forces. some of them were gunmen opening fire on police here in baghdad and mystifyingly one of the targets appeared to be an elementary school. this was in the town of hillah... near the town of hillah south of baghdad where a car bomb...
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tweet us using the hashtag @questionsforjoel. the syria story continues on our world page. go there to see a slideshow of syrian refugee's makeshift homes in lebanon. and you can see our full coverage of the mars landing and additional commentary from miles. find that on our science page. althat and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. >> woodruff: and again, to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the afghanistan conflict. we add them as their deaths are made official and photographs become available. here, in silence, are 11 more. >> brown: and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll look at the big money coming in and being spent in the race for the white house. i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundatio
tweet us using the hashtag @questionsforjoel. the syria story continues on our world page. go there to see a slideshow of syrian refugee's makeshift homes in lebanon. and you can see our full coverage of the mars landing and additional commentary from miles. find that on our science page. althat and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. >> woodruff: and again, to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the afghanistan conflict. we add them as their deaths are made...
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denise and joe join us now. and the author thomas jefferson pretty well-known, vice president, minister to france, secretary of state and eventually president. but the other 55, not so much. >> not so much. >> well who were they. if you were to look across the room, who was sitting in that hot summer room in philadelphia? >> the 55, i mean i would say out of the 56 men, the 5 we know are franklin, jefferson and hancock. i think these days other people would say i recognize john adams because of the mini series and sam adams because of a beer. that's just the way it is. the other men, i think if you look at them across their professions, some of them were lawyers, some were doctors. kreiger politicians. a large number made their income from agricultural work, whether that was a large plantation in the south or a small farm. >> these were men who enjoyed a role of prominence, that's how they ended up in the continental congress. some of them started out from humble beginnings. not the majority of them but there ar
denise and joe join us now. and the author thomas jefferson pretty well-known, vice president, minister to france, secretary of state and eventually president. but the other 55, not so much. >> not so much. >> well who were they. if you were to look across the room, who was sitting in that hot summer room in philadelphia? >> the 55, i mean i would say out of the 56 men, the 5 we know are franklin, jefferson and hancock. i think these days other people would say i recognize...
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bnsf, the engine that connects us. and carnegie corporation. >> and with the ooing support of these institutions and foundat.nsoi and... friends of the newshou >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. anby contributions to your p station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: lebanon found itself reliving a nightmarish past today after the worst bombing in fr years. at least eit people were killed and nearly 80 wounded in a car-bomb attack.le the explosion rocked central beirut as afternoon rush hour was getting underway, tearing through a mostly christian nehborhood.o streets were strewn with burned- out cars, and the force of the blast blew out windows and doors, and sent bloodied, dazed people into the streets, pleading for help. >> ( translated ): the whole place was destroyed. god saved my life. nothing left-- no roof, no windows. >> brown: other witnesses to the bombing said it brought back grim memories of lebanon's long civil war from 1975 to 1990. >> ( translated ): i
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bill neely, thank you for joining us. tell us what yove been observing in damaus. how does the conflict look from where you are? >> well, i was last here two months ago and i would say then that the war was at the doorstep of damascus. i would say right now it's right in the front room of damascus and there's no question that president assad can look out his window any time he wants over this city and see it happening and hear it happening right in front of him. i've spent the last two days on the outskirts of three-- just as i speak there are more exlosions inheackgund there. i've been on the outskirts of three districts in the south of the capital. now, they're not suburbs, they are in damascus city itself, and they are being bbarded relentlessly by the army which is also using russian-made mig warplanes. they say they're attacking rebels who are inside those districts and thaez that bombardment has been going on for days. there are reports that dozens, if not hundreds of people have been killed. the rebels y they whdrew from those districts yesterday partly beca
bill neely, thank you for joining us. tell us what yove been observing in damaus. how does the conflict look from where you are? >> well, i was last here two months ago and i would say then that the war was at the doorstep of damascus. i would say right now it's right in the front room of damascus and there's no question that president assad can look out his window any time he wants over this city and see it happening and hear it happening right in front of him. i've spent the last two...
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so what can you tell us? >> well, what we know is back in the summer of 2010 a private collector e-mail professor karen king at harvard saying "i've got this small papyrus fragment, i'm not sure what it says, can i send you photographs for you to take a look at?" and she sort of blows him off for a while but eventually she does take a look at it and is quite intrigued because there's this sort of bombshell phrase in the middle of the papyrus in the ancient egyptian language of coptic "jesus said to them: my wife." but it's a small fragment. if you look at it, it's smaller than an it yes, ma'am card. >> suarez: so if written in the 4th century, that would be long after the death of jesus. so are scholars looking at this as possibly telling us about him and his life as a sort of biography or is it more just-- just for context is it thinking about how the early christian communities thought about jesus? >> yeah, that's a great question. care king is very explicit and she's said over and over again because there
so what can you tell us? >> well, what we know is back in the summer of 2010 a private collector e-mail professor karen king at harvard saying "i've got this small papyrus fragment, i'm not sure what it says, can i send you photographs for you to take a look at?" and she sort of blows him off for a while but eventually she does take a look at it and is quite intrigued because there's this sort of bombshell phrase in the middle of the papyrus in the ancient egyptian language of...
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she joins us from houston. molly, tell us a bit more about the boy scouts explanation for why they are reaffirming this policiment policy -- policy, what are they saying. >> it's interesting the announcement made yesterday. reaffirmed the policy, it reiterated what had already been said and it came at a time as you mentioned when they're having these protests and high profile appearances by jennifer turrell and others who have been outed as gay scout leaders or gay scouts. so the reaffirmation were seen by observers who i talked to yesterday as just sort of reaffirming of the character of the scouts as a more conservative organization. some of the observers who i talked to who were, has been involved in scouting, had followed scouting for decades said this just indicated how intertwined the boy scouts of america, had come with some religious organizations that sponsor a lot of troops. that this was sort of both a moral decision but also a business decision as well. >> brown: to be clear, this is akin to a don't
she joins us from houston. molly, tell us a bit more about the boy scouts explanation for why they are reaffirming this policiment policy -- policy, what are they saying. >> it's interesting the announcement made yesterday. reaffirmed the policy, it reiterated what had already been said and it came at a time as you mentioned when they're having these protests and high profile appearances by jennifer turrell and others who have been outed as gay scout leaders or gay scouts. so the...
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they used to use all the information they would get from to do or ins and supporters who sent direct mail. well, now you can know your zip code, you know what people buy, you know what people like, you know where they live, you know their stub division and it's much easier to target. >> i'm sure the campaigns would object to the fact that robots are doing this because somebody has to make this decision and the fact that they know in the age of google about your purchasing habits, male, female, demographic information. and mitt romney's, they don't have as many examples on mitt romney's fund-raising but while team obama is using sarah jessica parker and george clooney dinners as fund-raising tools, romney has just sent out an e-mail, or his campaign has, inviting people win a day on the road with mitt if you contribute a few dollars. >> and they have done that with president obama. you could have dinner with both the president and michelle. that was something done a few months ago. that was copy cat exercise. >> suarez: and it doesn't really cost much more. unlike campaigns that reall
they used to use all the information they would get from to do or ins and supporters who sent direct mail. well, now you can know your zip code, you know what people buy, you know what people like, you know where they live, you know their stub division and it's much easier to target. >> i'm sure the campaigns would object to the fact that robots are doing this because somebody has to make this decision and the fact that they know in the age of google about your purchasing habits, male,...
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dawn, thanks for joining us. explain a little more for us, ina drew, how central a role she played in all of this. and are our departures expected? >> she didn't necessarily have a central role in conducting the trades or the positions that the bank had, that lost all the money. but she was the person that oversaw this office. the office in london that was so problematic for j.p. morgan reported up to drew. apparently drew had no idea what was going on or how bad things were. in fact, when the bank first started discovering how bad the losses were, she initially argued to try to keep the hedge on so that the bank could maybe see if it could wait it out a little bit. but that was based on wrong information because the lond often office just wasn't giving her all of the facts. >> warner: what about the people who actually ran the london office, who were conducting these trades including the so-called london whale, the trader who actually took these huge positions betting on credit indices or something like that. >>
dawn, thanks for joining us. explain a little more for us, ina drew, how central a role she played in all of this. and are our departures expected? >> she didn't necessarily have a central role in conducting the trades or the positions that the bank had, that lost all the money. but she was the person that oversaw this office. the office in london that was so problematic for j.p. morgan reported up to drew. apparently drew had no idea what was going on or how bad things were. in fact,...
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the biggest challenge for us right now remains new york. the three largest airports in new york are closed and will be closed for some of tomorrow and perhaps all of tomorrow. and that's a challenge because roughly one third of the u.s air travel goes through the new york airport. back up andhose running will be the biggest challengese others are already up and runnin so airports in philadelphia and washington are beginning to take ervice again which is great a news. >> warner: why is it prove... i know we're only a daynto this, t difficult to reopen new york airports. are these just under water or is there damage? >> well, evaluating damage but laguardia has some water on the runways. that needs to be pumped off. the systems need to be inspected both the lighting and landing equipment and the navigation equipment needs to be inspectedm j.f.k. will likely open around noon tomorrow. some aircraft will be coming in there and hopefully starting full service again on thursday. newark right now is withou commercial power. once commercial power c
the biggest challenge for us right now remains new york. the three largest airports in new york are closed and will be closed for some of tomorrow and perhaps all of tomorrow. and that's a challenge because roughly one third of the u.s air travel goes through the new york airport. back up andhose running will be the biggest challengese others are already up and runnin so airports in philadelphia and washington are beginning to take ervice again which is great a news. >> warner: why is it...
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>> well, because they wouldn't give it to us. but we were, you know, interested in looking at how medicare billing has changed over the years. this is the database that had millions and millions of individual billings by doctors. it was sort of the holy grail at looking at medicare billing. >> i tried to explain upcoding a little bit. when we get a bill from our doctor we don't know that there are five different at goers on how our visit was billed. >> that has been a mystery to patients for years. nobody looks at those numbers. they don't mean anything to anybody. but this fact they're representative of the amount of time that the doctor took with caring for you and the degree of effort that was put into the treatment. and they're correspondingly. what we saw over time was that the coding was just going up like this, sort of like an airplane taking off. it appears that there was no real explanation for it. >> sreenivasan: more and more of the visits were categorized at the highest level. how do you determine that kind of fine li
>> well, because they wouldn't give it to us. but we were, you know, interested in looking at how medicare billing has changed over the years. this is the database that had millions and millions of individual billings by doctors. it was sort of the holy grail at looking at medicare billing. >> i tried to explain upcoding a little bit. when we get a bill from our doctor we don't know that there are five different at goers on how our visit was billed. >> that has been a mystery...